Appearing on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. with guest host David Asman, Liz Peek pushed back hard on the emerging narrative that Iran has somehow come out of the recent conflict stronger. “I’m really tired of everybody saying Iran is better off than they were before,” she said. By her account the opposite is true: Tehran has been left with no functioning navy, a military it can barely afford to pay, and an economy “truly in shambles,” with inflation running through the roof.
Peek acknowledged that the regime itself may still be clinging to power, but said it is far from clear what form that government now takes — or how long it can hold. Whatever survives, she argued, is staring down a deeply angry population at home, leaving the leadership weaker and more isolated than at almost any point in recent memory.
On the deal now being discussed, Peek urged caution and patience, suggesting critics “hold their fire” until the actual terms are known rather than rushing to judgment. Genuine peace in the Middle East, she said, will require giving Iran some viable path back to stability — total disruption and collapse inside the country serve no one’s interests. She also pointed to a dramatic regional realignment: the Gulf States, once wary, now stand firmly as allies of the United States, a shift she called unthinkable 10 or 15 years ago.
Above all, Peek argued, Iran is afraid — of the United States, and especially of President Trump. Having just “bombed the heck out of them,” the U.S. has shown it is willing to act. If Tehran fails to comply with the memorandum of understanding on the table, she said, she has “absolutely no doubt whatsoever” that Trump would be comfortable going back in.
